RURALAB (Social Innovation Space) PAÍS ROMÁNICO ASSOCIATION RuraLab, is a project aimed at those individuals, groups, social organisations, local entities or businesses that may have an interest in developing new ideas and projects linked to sustainable development of the territory. Taking advantage of the huge potential of the local entrepreneurship, RuraLab is created with three main objectives: ...

Few weeks ago, I wrote here about the “ToTCOOP+i project“, the European Project about Strategic Partnership for Innovating the Training of Trainers of the European Agro-food Cooperatives … Where Association For Social Cooperatives is a partner with another five European entities in order to improve the quality of VET (vocational education and training) in the European cooperative sector. AGACA ...

In the Social Economy ambit in Spain exist different types of entities: Cooperatives Labour Societies Mutuals Insertion Companies Brotherhoods of fishermen Employment Centers. Among them, I want to introduce you to the Labour Insertion Companies in Spain. First of all, a general definition… “The Insertion Companies, were born as an instrument to fight poverty and social ...

To start the week, I leave you here a brilliant and thoughtful documentary about social movements related to agroecology and the paradigm shift that are taking place in Spain. “Jean Luc Danneyrolles, farmer of the french provence and Carlos Pons, a spanish documentary filmmaker , organized a trip to Granada to meet the alternative social ...

I would like to tell you about Cooperativa Integral Ecomun2 (Comprehensive Cooperative Ecomun2). A project developed in Malaga in which I participated in before this EVS opportunity appeared on my way. I call it “Project” because it was born the last year, 2014, and hasn’t been constituted yet as cooperative legal form. To get you acquainted with ...

Today I would like to introduce you a Spanish social cooperative which takes place in Barcelona. TEB Cooperative Group was set up in 1974 by some families of intellectually disabled people who claimed for the rights of people with intellectual disability. This was a pioneer initiative in Spain by that time, over the last years of the ...

In Grudziądz, a small city between Toruń and Gdańsk, people from different associations and points of view are trying to carry out a social revitalization of the old town. The idea of Rewilalizacja społeczna grudziądzkiej Starówki -a nine months project promoted by Caritas- is to build up a social centre which will respond to the needs of social ...

Even before the crisis exploded and left us all open-mouthed, Spanish people, but especially Spanish youth, were already struggling for the right to get a house (among other issues). Living with the family is comfortable and good for your stomach but starts to become a nightmare at some point. Living with some friends is funny until ...